Hardware Systems Engineer

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Full Time Professional Maryland, Hollywood, MD, US

6 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

About Company:

Parraid, LLC is a highly regarded, U.S.

-based, technology and engineering company specializing in product solutions for aerospace and ground tactical applications. Our product offerings include telemetry data systems (TDS), deployable tactical communication systems, and net-centric everything over IP products. From expedited acquisition to rapid fielding and execution, our mission-critical solutions enable our customers to transform, evolve, and modernize.

About the Role:

The Hardware Systems Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing complex hardware systems that meet rigorous performance, reliability, and cost requirements. This role involves collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including software engineers, product managers, and manufacturing to ensure seamless integration and functionality of hardware components. The engineer will lead efforts in system-level troubleshooting, validation, and testing to guarantee that hardware solutions comply with industry standards and customer specifications.

Additionally, the position requires continuous evaluation of emerging technologies to innovate and improve existing hardware architectures. Ultimately, the Hardware Systems Engineer will deliver robust and scalable hardware solutions that drive the success of the company’s products in the competitive marketplace.

Required

Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of PCI Express, DDR or other high-speed interfaces, preferably with practical experience.
• Knowledge of Ethernet down to the physical layer, preferably with practical experience.
• Knowledge of basic serial communication interfaces like I2C and USB, preferably with practical experience.
• Knowledge of SoC FPGA design, preferably with practical experience.
• Experience with design and debug of HDL coding (VHDL, Verilog/System Verilog) targeting communication signal processing and low latency processing.
• Good understanding of practical techniques for noise reduction / control and electrical susceptibility immunity.
• Successful track record of completed design efforts.

Desired

Skills and Experience:

• Expert knowledge of hardware technologies with 7 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience dealing with timing constraints and closing timing on FPGA designs.
• Familiarity with basic DSP functional blocks such as filtering and FFT.
• Previously performed high-speed signal integrity analysis.
• Experience with RF design and debug techniques.
• Exposure to, and experience with, EMC/EMI and Environmental qualification processes.
• Scripting capabilities like Python for debug tools and testing.

Responsibilities:

• Develop hardware design specifications based on requirements, or concept sketches.
• Perform technical planning, circuit level design, implementation, verification, formal Acceptance and Production tests.
• Perform system-level analysis through all phases of the product design cycle: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, and maintenance.
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule and cost constraints.
• Perform functional analysis, timing analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition to address customer requirements.
• Lead and actively participate in hardware design including architecture plan, generation of functional block diagrams, state diagrams, and schematics.
• Perform design analysis including circuit modeling and simulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA) simulations, signal integrity modeling, power analysis, failure mode analysis, and manufacturability analysis.
• Implementation of the design including oversight of layout, support procurement of first article and debug of the first article build.
• Write and review design, release, and support documentation: design review documents, production manuals,…